Trivia: geography in chess openings |
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Page 1 of 2 It is amazing how many countries, cities and nationalities are involved in chess openings. Let's have some fun and compile a full list! I will be adding the replies from the comments to the post until we have all of them. To warm-up, here are some obvious ones: 1. The French Defense: 1.e4 e6 2. The Sicilian: 1.e4 c5 3. They Ruy Lopez (aka Spanish opening): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 More? Please rely on your memory only, no googling! 4. Dutch Defense (Bob Clowar): 1.d4 f5 5. Scotch Game (Ciaran Ruane): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 6. Italian Game (Ciaran Ruane): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 7.Scandinavian Defense (Ciaran Ruane): 1.e4 d5 8.Catalan Opening (Ciaran Ruane): 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 9. Indian defenses (Ciaran Ruane) 10. Petroff's Defense (aka Russian Opening, karpidis): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 11. English opening (karpidis): 1.c4 12. Vienna Game (Felipe Pait): 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 13. Austrian attack (Ganesh): 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 14. Berlin Defense (Ganesh): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 15. Budapest gambit (Jerry Weldin): 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 16. Moscow variation of the Sicilian Defense (Jerry Weldin): 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5 17. Meran variation (yvind Pedersen): 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 18. London system (yvind Pedersen) : 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Not bad, but I know a few more!
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